Finding the value closest to 0

Question

Suppose you are given a list of Q 1D points. Write code to return the value in Q that is the closest to value j. If two values are equally close to j, return the smaller value.

Example:

Q = [1, -1, -5, 2, 4, -2, 1]
j = 3
#Output: 2

Solution

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